Money rules all

Even if I put this up a few days ago, when a good little blogger would have, there wouldn’t be much to say outside of the fact that Floyd Mayweather Jr (45-0, 26 KOs) proved himself to be the best boxer of his generation and as much as some (myself included) wanted him to lose, it just wasn’t going to happen against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-1-1, 30 KOs).

The fight went about as I had expected it. It didn’t take as long for Floyd to gather all the information he needed as I had thought. In hindsight I should have known that was going to happen. He is fast, too smart, just too good.

Canelo had a size advantage and certainly had the strength advantage, but it was all for naught. Floyd wanted Canelo to drop weight (and he did), but it wouldn’t have mattered even if Canelo weighed in at 160.

The first two rounds Floyd spent feeling out Canelo. Timing his movements, his punch speed, his mobility around the ring. It took him two rounds to figure out Canelo and completely neutralize him. To his credit, Canelo never stopped trying, but simply trying to do something against Floyd is not near good enough.

Scoring the fight was easy for everyone with the exception of CJ Ross. She scored the fight even at 114-114 which makes it one of the worst scorecards ever turned in. It truly was a travesty of a scorecard. Coincidentally she also turned in another one of the worst cards ever when she scored the Pacquiao-Bradley fight in favor of Tim Bradley.

The first half of the fight was very much Matthysse’s as he muscled Garcia around the ring. He never really landed the thudding shots he has in the past against Garcia, but did enough to keep the champion from getting into any sort of rhythm.

The second half was decidedly different. Garcia, whether through a punch or thumb, caused massive swelling to Matthysse’s right eye. It didn’t take long for that eye to shut and Garcia took full advantage, even dropped Matthysse for the first time in his career in the 11th round.

The judges scored the fight 115-111, 114-112 (twice) all in favor of Danny Garcia.

I had it 114-112 in favor of Matthysse, but there appeared to be several rounds that could have went either way.

(Side note: On social media I repeatedly saw mentions that Lucas Matthysse was ‘exposed’. Nothing could be further from the truth. Until his eye swelled up like a water balloon he was winning the fight.)